AFRE Faculty Participate in African Development Bank Session on Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19

The ADBG sponsored event was entitled "Building Resilience in Food Systems and Agricultural Value Chains: Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Africa”.

Titus O. Awokuse<awokuset@msu.edu>, David Tschirley<tschirle@msu.edu>, Thomas Reardon<reardon@msu.edu>, Saweda Liverpool-Tasie<lliverp@msu.edu> -

On May 18th and May 19th, 2020, the African Development Bank Group hosted a brainstorming session entitled, “Building Resilience in Food Systems and Agricultural Value Chains: Agricultural Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Africa”. The session featured economists and food and agricultural policy researchers from around the world, including Michigan State University Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics faculty members Titus Awokuse, David Tschirley, Tom Reardon, and Saweda Liverpool-Tasie. 

To learn more about AFRE’s contributions to the conference check out the following blog posts:

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